Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged. "

Related Quotes:

" I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances. "

" Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be. "

" I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust. "

" I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful. "

" I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual. "

" I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see. "

" I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know? "

" Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them. "

" Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency. "

" Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it. "

" I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full. "

" When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special. "

" I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think. "

" People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. "

" I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then. "

" I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed. "

" The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film. "

" I think the father-son love story is a universal one which transcends color. "

" I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera. "

" I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it. "

" 'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me. "

" I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films. "

" I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream. "

" My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender. "

" I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that. "

" I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave. "

" I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals. "

" I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills. "

" Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think. "

" I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face. "